November 20th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Thanks to everyone who attended the Developer Day India codelab sessions and participated in the gadget contest. We’ve completed the judging and have awarded prizes. Here are the final results:
1st place
Resource Hog Tracker by Prithvi Prabhu
2nd place
Typing Tutor by Shourya Sarcar
3rd place (tie)
Number Converter by Sathish Kulal
and Indic Search by Amit Agarwal
As far as I know, all of these gadgets were created by newcomers to the Desktop Gadget APIs. The entire Google Developer Day team was continually impressed by the skill level of the attendees, and these gadgets prove that point.
Many thanks to all the participants, and we hope to see you all next year!
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)
November 14th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A new gadget by Stefan Van Damme (aka Stefan vd) is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: VM Wheater Map.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
November 14th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A new gadget by Stefan Van Damme (aka Stefan vd) is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: VM Wheater Map.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
Submit your winter holiday gadgets
November 10th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
It is again that time of the year when we ask the developer community to unleash their creativity and submit holiday-themed gadgets.In the past we’ve featured gadgets for a long list of holidays such as Valentine’s Day, Halloween, New Year, Christmas, …
November 10th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
It is again that time of the year when we ask the developer community to unleash their creativity and submit holiday-themed gadgets.In the past we’ve featured gadgets for a long list of holidays such as Valentine’s Day, Halloween, New Year, Christmas, …
New Hall of Fame leader: Alexey Polkovnikov
November 6th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
We would like congratulate Alexey Polkovnikov, who has grabbed the top spot in the Developer Hall of Fame. The Google Desktop team thanks Alexey for creating so many popular, useful gadgets!Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Deskt…
New Hall of Fame leader: Alexey Polkovnikov
November 6th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
We would like congratulate Alexey Polkovnikov, who has grabbed the top spot in the Developer Hall of Fame. The Google Desktop team thanks Alexey for creating so many popular, useful gadgets!Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Deskt…
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
When you submit your gadget, you specify URLs for large and small screenshots of the gadget. These screenshots represent your gadget in listings such as the Add gadgets window, online gadget directories, and the web page that’s automatically generated for each gadget.
Unfortunately, there was no direct way to update these locations should they ever change — until now. This tip tells you how to update the screenshot URLs.
Add these tags to the gadget.gmanifest of your published .gg file:
...
http://mysite.appspot.com/80x60_screen.png
http://mysite.appspot.com/300x255_screen.png
...
The gadget gallery has the smarts to pick up these changes and use the URLs you specify to update the images in the gallery. Check out the gadget.gmanifest documentation for more details.
Just a reminder, the small screenshot should be 80×60 pixels. Also, be sure to take a look at this classic tip about submitting better screenshots.
Posted by James Yum, Developer Programs Engineer (Google Desktop Team)
November 3rd, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
When you submit your gadget, you specify URLs for large and small screenshots of the gadget. These screenshots represent your gadget in listings such as the Add gadgets window, online gadget directories, and the web page that’s automatically generated …
October 28th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API, Uncategorized
Another new gadget by Andreas Horlacher is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Radio Energy Zürich.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
October 28th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Another new gadget by Andreas Horlacher is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Radio Energy Zürich.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
"Vox populi" applies everywhere
October 24th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
“Vox populi” is a Latin phrase that means “the voice of the people” or, in our case, the voice of the users. A good way to tap into this great source of feedback and to get a gratifying feeling, as well, is to compile accurate statistics about how many…
Update: Google Developer Day 2008 India
October 16th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Our very first Developer Day in India will be held on October 18, 2008 at the Chancery Pavilion, Bangalore, India.This is a very special Developer Day for Google Desktop, as many of our team members work out of the Google Bangalore office. If you are g…
Congratulations to Mehdy Bohlool!
October 13th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
A new gadget by Mehdy Bohlool is featured on the Inside Google Desktop blog. See the post Featured gadget: Persian Calendar.Posted by Kathy Walrath, Technical Writer (Google Desktop Team)
October 9th, 2008 | by Kathy Walrath [GD Team] | published in Google Desktop API
Did you know that on Windows you can extract a file that’s packaged within your Desktop gadget? The following code extracts a file (called sample.xml in this example) to the temporary folder. var tempFile = gadget.storage.extract(“sample.xml”); // ext…